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Registered charity · Bolton

Active Bolton

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Amateur Sport
Where
Bolton
Website
www.activebolton.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Active Bolton LTD.
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.2m£3.1m
  • 2024£2.9m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.7m£2.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.3m£2.0m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.5m
Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE OR TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION PHYSICAL EDUCATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE BOROUGH OF BOLTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS. FOR FULL OBJECT DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

3.7y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Amateur Sport 9Education/training 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Construction 26Arts and leisure 8Property 7

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.9 in 2021

86 from 85 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1087039
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 FEBRUARY 2001 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 21 MARCH 2001 AND 26 APRIL 2001 as amended on 10 Mar 2026 as amended on 11 Feb 2026
Companies House
Company number 04165498 · Active
Contact on the register
01204488100 · info@activebolton.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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